Any NBA or basketball fans here?

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What's your team? I like the Bucks of course!

Any opinions on Kevin Durant signing with Golden State?

I think he's a coward and it really bugs me that lack of competitive spirit in the NBA nowadays, this guy was up 3-1 on the Warriors and choked as hard as anybody ever did before!

Greetings:
I am just new to this website.
I am pleased to see a fellow sports junkie
such as my self.
My team is the Toronto Raptors.

dkraps95

Hi Jacoby, Hi dkraps95! I don't watch any basketball but I do play! Do you guys play or are you more "appreciators"?

Huge fan here. I'm an Indiana Pacers fan. Used to play but stopped at University and never really got back into playing, now I've got injuries that prevent it.

Durant is weak as f...

I am a fan but haven't kept up much with pro ball for years. I like college ball and my favorite team is UVA (University of Virginia).

I was a rabid Knicks fan when I was a kid. I used to throw stuff at the TV when the Knicks lost; this earned me a ban from watching TV for a couple of days.

I like basketball from the 70s better than the basketball of today. I do like the 3-pointer, though.

YYYYYEEEEESSSSS!! !! ! NBA, and b-ball in general, is one of my PRIMARY special interests, and has been since I was nine or so years old.

When I was a child, I had every NBA player's height, weight, college, and middle name memorized, thanks to the Sporting News NBA Register.

I played the sport as a child in rec league as well, and continued to play sporadically in gyms as an adult. Though I may have some minor coordination issues in some other pursuits (can't ride a bike or swim), I was nonetheless a good basketball player because I started playing while young. I wanted to join the WNBA (I was 12/13 yrs old when the league started), but I stopped growing (5'2").

I live in SW MO and have been a big OKC fan since they came here from Seattle in '08. I was very upset at Durant leaving, and I ended up selling my entire card collection of his on eBay for $150 or thereabouts (I had an autograph, quite a few jersey cards, and so forth -- trading cards is a subset special interest of my basketball interest, and I regularly trade cards online - over 1,000 feedback on Sports Card Forum, and over 100 on Blowout, where everyone assumes I'm a guy unless they find out otherwise...lol).

I also like the Cavaliers. When I wasn't watching OKC last season, I was watching them as my #2 team. I was very excited when they beat the Warriors in the Finals, especially after the Thunder disappointingly gave up their 3-1 series lead against them in the WCF, and especially since the previous year's Finals had them without Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love. However, I still have mixed opinions on Kevin Love. He's a nice player and all, but his handsome good looks can be a distraction. Staring at him is an inadvertent special interest I have tried to get rid of.

Also familiar with the Celtics' scout, Jon Niednagel, and his Brain Type system. I know the Brain Type (similar to Myers-Briggs type) of every player he has typed. When watching the games, and paying attention to the numerous strategies, I also look for each player's type tendencies. It's all very systematic, which we Aspies love.

OK, I'm really done now. Get an Aspie on a special interest, and we seem to never end ...

I was similar in regards to height/weight/college of whatever random NBA player, the video games helped me out!

It was never in the cards for me to be basketball player unfortunately, didn't have the height or coordination but I do have a cousin that will be playing D1 this season which is exciting but don't know how much PT he'll get this year.

Very excited for the Bucks this season with the trio of Giannis Antetokounmpo, Khris Middleton, and Jabari Parker with Coach Kidd!

Ha, yeah, Tecmo NBA Basketball is what got me into it. Old Nintendo game. Also loved the NBA Live series. It's since been eclipsed by NBA 2K.

Very cool about the D1 cousin.

I think the Bucks will continue to improve. Kidd is a tactical genius who gets the most out of his players. Giannis is a great talent. If Parker is in shape, he'll be even better. I like Middleton as a key role player. And Dellavedova will be a nice backup at point guard.

Delly will start I think for his tough defense and 3 point shooting, don't need him to be a great PG since Giannis will be distributing most of the time, looked great tho leading the point for Team Australia at the Olympics tho. Excited for the team and it's future, new ownership has changed everything and there is actually a new arena being built which I never expected to happen in Milwaukee. The young guys are all high character, it's hard no to like them. Honestly the most unlikable guy on the team is Jason Kidd!

A lot of the time I just tune out the west; just doesn't seem like it will be competitive this year with Durant's betrayal, Duncan's retirement, Westbrook all alone in a contract year(I'm think he's going to go 05-06 Kobe)

east really is wide open tho I think especially after Cleveland, lot of teams expecting to improve

Yeah I'm gonna try to enjoy it even while expecting the Warriors and Durant will probably be ridiculous and too hard to beat. :/ Who knows how long that superteam will last...will be keeping an eye on the rest of the league to see who else will at least be interesting to watch, even if not capable of beating GSW.

I feel like there has to be some diminishing returns with Durant going to GS, he's just going to be camped out on that 3 point line and he isn't going to like having to play big in their small ball line ups. Think he's going to get Chris Bosh/Kevin Love'd next to the truly great player in Stephen Curry. They already have a championship team so Durant is going to have to be the one that adjusts, I don't believe they'll be getting 73 wins again for sure. I just hate Durant's mentality, I feel like it's the mentality of a loser and he never ever took the blame in OKC with Westbrook always taking the heat. Also he got a giant tattoo of Rick James on his leg, I declare KD will never win a championship!